Question: Does the Enneagram Tritype® Test v8 have inherent biases?

Katherine: Your comments are important considerations. Having said that, your considerations show how you organize your internal data but do not necessarily lead you to your dominant Enneagram Type, Tritype®, Instinctual Type, and Subtype. It is much more likely to lead you away from your TrueType.

Depending on your definition of the bias- it absolutely does! The test recognizes testing patterns based on tens of thousands of international test takers for the last 18 years. However, these word clusters emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s prior to my work with the Enneagram.

Tests can, of course, appear to be too obvious to the trained eyes of the Enneagram Enthusiasts and appear to be too vague and confusing to those new to the Enneagram of Personality.

To more accurately, type yourself, and others, you need to be able to evaluate and rank the data in front of you rather than projecting into the future and answering based on what you think you should answer. ;)

It might be helpful to know that, unlike most personality typologies, this test is not meant to be a set of descriptions of the Enneagram types, and how well you know them. Instead, it is meant to be a collection of 9, in-depth inquiry testing instruments, designed and programmed to help you recognize, sort, and rank the ways in which your defense strategies will operate; collecting data, organizing the data, and then when and how you will act on the data, and why.

So, remember that there are no right or wrong answers only your rankings within each category and how you ranked them. From there, each person is in effect. given a much more personalized Enneagram Tritype® Test.

It is not meant to trick the test-taker, disguise the answers, or make the questions seem too obvious. The approach instead is based on “your” approach. The special programming is simply helping you to discover the words, sentences, pictures. and phrases that you chose and when.

To determine your Type, Tritype®, Instinctual Type, or Subtype; it is not whether or not it is obvious that you recognize the adjectives, Enneastatements, or Enneacards, but rather whether or not you recognize your idealized images, core fears, and defense strategies.

So be sure to pay attention to any "Special Notices" that you may have received. Then compare and contrast your results with one another.

Remember that due to the highly personalized nature of this Enneagram Tritype® Test v.8, two people may lead with the same Enneagram Type and Tritype® and Instinctual Stacking but identify with different cards. So there are many, many wonderful patterns within patterns.

More on Tritype® here:
Katherine created a test that has been programmed to pick up particular patterns that the types use.
Take the Test here: https://enneagramtritypetest.com
General Information: www.katherinefauvre.com/tritype
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